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Agenda

2018 | 2018

“2018″, a performance by Teatro Praga, reactivates some questions as a way to find alternative ways to approach the complex historiography of the performing arts.

As the passage of the choreographers Fokine and Massine, the work of modernist plastic artists, the vitality of the dancer Nijinsky to the orientalizing sound of Rimsky-Korsakov or Tchaikovsky unleashed a certain modernity in Portugal, “2018” acknowledges a formal distance by resourcing to the same artistic strategies from which it tries to distance itself.

Man as the first figure in a ballet, expression and abandonment of the choreographic vocabulary as a norm, the beginning of a collaborative work, the fusion of popular with elite culture, nationalist interest, the construction of pieces of a single idea and the background painted as iconographic strategy, characteristics that are transversal to the work of the Russian Ballets, also structure the performance. But this time in an unpredictable way.

In “2018”, the background has dropped and everything becomes the foreground. And in this unfettered space, the performers both borrow money and receive flowers as they question, whether they give space to sound or objects, either they dance or do the opposite or make room to other unproductive sensory aspects for the pleasure of doing so.